http://www.kayakquixotica.com Tilting At Waves Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:09:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/03/30/where-would-you-most-like-to-paddle-hadas/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/03/30/where-would-you-most-like-to-paddle-hadas/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:53:15 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5830 Hadas Feldman is an amazing sea kayaker for sure, but more than that she's something of an enigma as well. She's one of those few people who changes the atmosphere simply by walking in. Suddenly the energy goes through the roof and the sun breaks through the the clouds, blue birds come out of nowhere and start to sing. . . Sure, that sounds silly now, but you'll see... Oh Man! ]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2010/03/30/where-would-you-most-like-to-paddle-hadas/feed/ 11 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/01/30/pomegranates-rain/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/01/30/pomegranates-rain/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:16:22 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=3151 We had traveled through a day and into the night to arrive at her family's home in a moshav somewhere in southern Israel. A moshav is a cooperative community usually agricultural, where people own their homes and farms but purchase and sell cooperatively. A way of life a bit more autonomous than that of a kibbutz. Cooperative communities have never found much support here in the states. It seems the closest we can come are gated communities where what we share are walls, fences and security cameras.]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/01/30/pomegranates-rain/feed/ 4 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/14/little-red-kayak/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/14/little-red-kayak/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:52:00 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=2262 But of all the little bits and bobs I brought home, this was the real treasure. . .]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/14/little-red-kayak/feed/ 0 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/12/optimist-symposium-gallery/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/12/optimist-symposium-gallery/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:28:21 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=2241 Never Stop Learning! In the end we always get back to the paddling!  I have just posted my 2008 Optimist Sea Kayak Symposium Photo Gallery here.  By the way it’s really hard to sort images down to something manageable! Even then I still had 74 pictures which I thought at least sort of captured the [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/12/optimist-symposium-gallery/feed/ 4 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/11/knickers/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/11/knickers/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:48:22 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=2235 Thing is even in the Holy Land sometimes you need a nice pair of knickers. ]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2008/11/11/knickers/feed/ 3